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ClareR (5879 KP) rated People Like Them in Books

Jan 29, 2024  
People Like Them
People Like Them
Samira Sedira | 2021 | Contemporary, Crime, Fiction & Poetry, Thriller
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7.0 (1 Ratings)
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How could a seemingly normal person commit an atrocious crime? How could that persons loved ones ever come to terms with it afterwards? And how well can you ever really know your own spouse? Are you as much to blame for their actions? Should you have seen it coming?

These are all questions that Anna Guillot asks herself about her husband, Constant.

It all starts so innocently: Constant and Bakary Langlois are good friends, even if the differences in their financial statuses are vast. Bakary starts to help other neighbours with their investments, and Constant is upset that he doesn’t seem to want to help him. Perhaps this should have been Constant’s warning.

Relationships change between the two families when Anna starts to work as the Langlois’ housekeeper/ cleaner, because how can they stay the same under these conditions?

It’s just one thing after another, until the final denouement where Anna is left to pick up the pieces of her family’s destroyed life, her guilt driving her? Was Constant racist? Were his actions based around those thoughts?

This was really disturbing and quite a distressing read. It was well worth it though.